Plague

Pete saw the world without cringing or needing to run away. It was as if he’d been watching the world through a veil, through milky glass, and now saw it all clearly for the first time in his brief existence.
    His whole life he had needed to hide. And now he gasped at the thrill of seeing and hearing and feeling.
    His sick body was gone. His distorting, terrifying brain was gone.
    But Pete Ellison had never been more alive.

About the Author

    MICHAEL GRANT has spent much of his life on the move. Raised in a military family, he attended ten schools in five states, as well as three schools in France. Even as an adult he kept moving, and in fact he became a writer in part because it was one of the few jobs that wouldn’t tie him down. His fondest dream is to spend a year circumnavigating the globe and visiting every continent. Yes, even Antarctica. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Katherine Applegate, and their two children. You can visit him online at www.themichaelgrant.com.
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Praise for the Gone Series

    Gone

“This intense, marvelously plotted, paced, and characterized story will immediately garner comparisons to Lord of the Flies or even the long-playing world shifts of Stephen King, with just a dash of X-Men for good measure. A potent mix of action and thoughtfulness—centered around good and evil, courage and cowardice—renders this a tour de force that will leave readers dazed, disturbed, and utterly breathless.”
—ALA Booklist (starred review)

    Hunger

“Readers will be unable to avoid involuntarily gasping, shuddering, or flinching while reading this suspense-filled story. The tension starts in the first chapter and does not let up until the end. The story is progressing with smart plot twists, both in actions and emotions.”
— VOYA (starred review)

Other Gone books by Michael Grant:
    Gone
Hunger
Lies

Copyright
    Plague
    Copyright © Michael Grant 2011
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Grant, Michael.
    Plague: a Gone novel / Michael Grant. — 1st ed.
    p. cm. — (Gone)
    Summary: A deadly, flulike epidemic and plague of flesh-eating creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle with doubts and uncertainties.
    ISBN 978-0-06-144912-3 (trade bdg.) — ISBN 978-0-06-144913-0 (lib. bdg.)
    [1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Good and evil—Fiction. 3. Survival—Fiction. 4. Sick— Fiction. 5. Plague—Fiction.] I. Title.
    PZ7.G7671P1 2011
[Fic]—dc22
    2010021834
CIP
AC
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    First Edition
    EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062077165

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